This website includes statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables from 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries, based on microdata from households surveys.



Information taken from this database should be cited as "Source: SEDLAC (CEDLAS and The World Bank)" or "Source: Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEDLAS and The World Bank)". We advise making reference to the date when the database was consulted, as statistics may change.

We would appreciate if a copy of publications or reports that use the information contained on this site is sent to us for our records.


For comments and suggestions, please write to sedlac@cedlas.org

Latest update: April 2012